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the new medical building, created to bring multiple medical specialties under one roof and would be the envy of any health system of any size in the coun- try. Everywhere you look along its wide, gleaming hallways, you see amenities to improve the patient experience: state-of- the-art examination and treatment areas, efficient and friendly check-in and recep- tion, comfortable waiting rooms, a coffee shop and a cafeteria. Reeves, who’s spent a portion of every working day for the past two years over- seeing the construction rise out of the ground, said even he is taken aback by the finished project. “I was there on the original planning committee that hired the architect and did the master plan all the way through until we cut the ribbon. I’ve literally spent
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hundreds, if not thousands of hours on this project,” he said. “You go through the process like this
“I came to West Plains
in 1954 with the promise that the community was going to build a hospital. It’s just imperative for a community to grow and prosper to have good healthcare and good
education. And we’ve got that in West Plains.” - Dr. Fowler -
and, rightly so, you have to be critical all the time of all the decisions that are made. Sometimes it’s not fun when you go through the process of building a building like this, but now that it’s fin- ished and I can look back and reflect on it, we’ve done something very special for the community. There’s nothing like it in south-central Missouri or really any- where in the Ozarks.” The three-story building, which was ded-
icated in February, brings together multi- ple specialties into various clinics. These include Ozarks Healthcare Endocrinology; Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT); General Surgery; Infectious Disease; Dermatology; Neurology; Rheumatology; Urology; Heart
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